I’ve Had Bad Days At The Office…

…but nothing like this:

JUNEAU, Alaska – Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion.

That’s what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue. While doing routine maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account — one of Alaska residents’ biggest perks — and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well.

There was still hope, until the department discovered its third line of defense, backup tapes, were unreadable.

Thanks Cheryl for making me feel that when I screw up, there’s always somebody who’s done it worse.

March 20, 2007

There’s A Blog For Everything

Like this one dedicated to nothing but pictures of cute girls drinking tea as well as to girls reading books (the latter being a bit NSFW in some spots).

March 19, 2007

That’s One Way To Piss Off Your Neighbors…

Just block off one of their doors by building a totally legal wheelchair ramp right in front of it (the picture) really tells the best story).

March 19, 2007

Round Two, Day Two, Tournament Pick ’em Scores

OK, the first weekend and the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament are over, and here are the scores in the pick ’em:

  • bojack: 53
  • goldenglove7624: 51
  • Scott’s Mad Dribblerz: 50
  • PLU_STATS_231_2: 50
  • jaylee: 50
  • Rusty from Portland: 49
  • #1 bracket: 49
  • monkeyinabox: 48
  • jenB_goDucks!: 47
  • Coz’s Bracket: 47
  • steph: 47
  • casual picks: 46
  • HEELSTAR: 46
  • whiteybarkley: 46
  • bend no more: 46
  • Bowser: 45
  • shots hot: 44
  • shlid: 44
  • MN Shivs: 43
  • Jake’s ’07 Pick ’em: 43
  • GO GATORS!!: 43
  • Canadian Bacon: 43
  • Reigning Dud: 43
  • Briar Patch Project: 42
  • Repeating Greatness: 42
  • PAIZANO’S PIZZA: 41
  • kandray’s bracket: 39
  • I can’t think of a name: 39
  • Tasmanian Devils: 38
  • Bretigny: 26

Things will get interesting next weekend where there are more points for correct picks (Go Ducks!). Thanks to everybody who’s playing!

March 18, 2007

Fun “Monkey Kick Off” Flash Game

Can you beat my score of 4284?

And no, I don’t have a clue how I did it, as most of my kicks were sub 1000.

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March 18, 2007

If Anybody’s Looking To Buy Me A T-Shirt…

…this one might top my list.

March 18, 2007

Round Two, Day One Updates

Keeping up with the scoring updates for the tourney here so that when Yahoo! deletes it, we can still look back at this and laugh. So here are the totals after the second round, day one:

  • jaylee: 42
  • bojack: 41
  • Scott’s Mad Dribblerz: 40
  • #1 bracket: 39
  • goldenglove7624: 39
  • Rusty from Portland: 39
  • HEELSTAR: 38
  • PLU_STATS_231_2: 38
  • whiteybarkley: 38
  • jenB_goDucks!: 37
  • steph: 37
  • Coz’s Bracket: 37
  • Reigning Dud: 35
  • MN Shivs: 35
  • Jake’s ’07 Pick ’em: 35
  • GO GATORS!!: 35
  • Briar Patch Project: 34
  • monkeyinabox: 34
  • shlid: 34
  • bend no more: 34
  • shots hot: 34
  • I can’t think of a name: 33
  • PAIZANO’S PIZZA: 33
  • Bowser: 33
  • Canadian Bacon: 33
  • casual picks: 32
  • Tasmanian Devils: 30
  • Repeating Greatness: 30
  • kandray’s bracket: 29
  • Bretigny: 22

March 17, 2007

Round One’s Over

And we’ve had a little bit of shift at the top of the scoreboard compared to yesterday, but with round 2 starting tomorrow, things are going to get interesting. Here are the scores so far (and 32 is a perfect score so far):

  • PLU_STATS_231_2: 28
  • Scott’s Mad Dribblerz: 28
  • jaylee: 28
  • goldenglove7624: 27
  • Rusty from Portland: 27
  • steph: 27
  • #1 bracket: 27
  • bojack: 27
  • casual picks: 26
  • bend no more: 26
  • jenB_goDucks!: 25
  • Reigning Dud: 25
  • jake’s ’07 Pick ’em: 25
  • Bowser: 25
  • I can’t think of a name: 25
  • shots hot: 24
  • shlid: 24
  • HEELSTAR: 24
  • Briar Patch Project: 24
  • PAIZANO’S PIZZA: 23
  • GO GATORS!!: 23
  • Coz’s Bracket: 23
  • Canadian Bacon: 23
  • MN Shivs: 23
  • Repeating Greatness: 22
  • monkeyinabox: 22
  • whiteybarkley: 22
  • kandray’s bracket: 21
  • Tasmanian Devils: 20
  • Bretigny: 16

I’m just glad the Ducks won, as that was a LOT closer than it should’ve been.

March 16, 2007

Tourney Pick ’em Day 1 Score Update

Since these will be erased after the tournament is over, I wanted to try to keep a daily running tab here so that we can remember these for posterity.

But here are the point totals for each bracket in the group so far. There were 16 games today and 16 possible points. And these can (and will) change as the tournament goes on as you get more points for your teams in the latter rounds. For example: last year, I was winning after the first two days, but ended up getting nearly last overall. So things will certainly get messed up:

  • PLU_STATS_231_2: 14
  • goldenglove7624: 14
  • jaylee: 14
  • PAIZANO’S PIZZA: 14
  • HEELSTAR: 13
  • Rusty from Portland: 13
  • #1 bracket: 13
  • Scott’s Mad Dribblerz: 13
  • jenB_goDucks!: 13
  • Canadian Bacon: 12
  • shots hot: 12
  • bend no more: 12
  • I can’t think of a name: 12
  • bojack: 12
  • casual picks: 12
  • steph: 12
  • Reigning Dud: 12
  • shlid: 11
  • Briar Patch Project: 11
  • monkeyinabox: 11
  • Bowser: 11
  • Repeating Greatness: 11
  • whiteybarkley: 11
  • Jake’s ’07 Pick ’em: 11
  • kandray’s bracket: 10
  • Bretigny: 10
  • Coz’s Bracket: 10
  • MN Shivs: 10
  • GO GATORS!!: 10
  • Tasmanian Devils: 9

I removed the folks from the list who signed up for the group, but didn’t complete a bracket in time (there were a few of those).

March 15, 2007

Amazing Pranks

There are two hilarious pranks that I’d read about recently that deserved being mentioned here:

March 15, 2007